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Jan 27 2016
Film:The Pan-Pacific International Expo: Site of the 1915 American Grand Prize & Vanderbilt Cup Race
Of the 11 Vanderbilt Cup Races held from 1904 to 1916, the most exotic location was clearly the 1915 Vanderbilt Cup Race held in San Francisco at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. (1 comments)
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Jan 25 2016
Mystery Foto #4 Solved: A 1942 Composite Aerial of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field-Updated 1/26/16
As requested by popular demand, here was the first Mystery Aerial of 2016. (11 comments)
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Jan 23 2016
The Race to a Doctorate: Michelin, Bibendum and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has spent ten years researching Michelin's graphic history. In July 2015, Pau completed his doctorate thesis "The forgotten years of Bibendum: the American stage of Michelin in Milltown." Design, illustration and advertising at tire companies (1900-1930). . (4 comments)
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Jan 22 2016
Film of the Week: The 1938 Flying Wombat- The Car That Thinks for You
One of the most spectacular cars that appeared in 1938 was The Flying Wombat- "The Car that Thinks for You." (2 comments)
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Jan 20 2016
Anatomy of a 1910 Survey: Proposed Location of the Deer Park Lodge
My favorite co-author Al Velocci was fascinated by last week's post on the Deer Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge and especially the 1910 March survey. (2 comments)
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Jan 19 2016
Inside the Wheeler Farmway Bridge #1: 1990s, 2008 and 2016
Of the 60 Motor Parkway bridges documented on the website, one of the eight still standing bridges is unseen by 99.5% of the people who walk and ride on it- the Wheeler Farmway Bridge #1 in Queens. Three brave Motor Parkway buffs have ventured inside this virtually inaccessible bridge. (6 comments)
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Jan 18 2016
Mystery Foto #3 Solved: Harry Grant driving an Isotta in the 1913 Elgin National Trophy Race
Stuart Middlemiss challenged you to solve this weekend's Peter Helck's "Mystery Painting." (3 comments)
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Jan 16 2016
The Making of “Chrysler’s Chrysler: The Painting” Updated 1/18/16
Automobile artist George Ellis has created a beautiful watercolor of the 1937 Chrysler LeBaron Town Car. George has provided this background on the making of "Chrysler's Chrysler: The Painting." (9 comments)
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Jan 15 2016
ClassicCars.com: Amelia Island Concours to host 11 motorsports trophies with the winning race cars
ClassicCars.com reports on the 2016 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance which will feature Amelia's "Trophy Cars" - eleven significant competition cars and the famous trophies they won in some of history's fabled classic races." (2 comments)
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Jan 13 2016
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #60: Deer Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge (Dix Hills)
The 60th and final bridge documented in the Long Island Motor Parkway bridge series is the "parkway bridge" over Deer Park Road (now Deer Park Avenue) in Commack. (2 comments)
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